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HOW DARE YOU?! HE IS PEERLESS IN ALL RESPECTS, INCLUDING TIMELY PAYMENT OF DEBTS!!!

I always say that the only thing certain after a Bills game is that I'll be having a beer. It'll either be a celebratory beer or a consolation beer to make the loss hurt a little less. But either way -- beer is certain!

I'm just glad we're not on the "in the hunt" graphic this year. That thing is stressful.

High housing costs, low job opportunities, frigid temperatures, and 84 nights of uninterrupted polar darkness. What's not to love?!

Chiefs 20 Bills 19 Close, back-and-forth, defensive slugfest. Lack of Kincaid and Coleman hurts against an elite defense, and the Bills have to settle for field goals repeatedly. Last team with the ball wins it. Either Butker hits the game winning kick or Bass misses the game winning kick. **Before you yell at me: I think this is the year that the Chiefs win in the regular season and then the Bills beat them in the playoffs.

Your statement is fair, but I think equal potential exists for the CHIEFS to get boat-raced. The Bills have won 21 of their last 23 matchups at home. They're also 3-1 vs the Chiefs in the regular season. They've scored 30 or more points in four straight games. The Bills are ranked seven spots higher in offensive PPG and four spots lower in defensive PPG allowed. The Chiefs have been barely winning games against bad teams, while the Bills have -- more often than not -- beat bad teams handily. Due to our injuries on offense and, well, the Chiefs being the Chiefs, it won't surprise me in the least if they whoop the Bills. But it also won't surprise me in the least if the Bills whoop the Chiefs. In the end, what I actually EXPECT to happen is what usually happens when these two teams play: a close, back-and-forth, one score game, where the last team with the ball likely wins it.

I gotta say (and I fully realize you don't care and that a leopard like you doesn't often change his spots): Calling people names like you do makes you sound like a 5th grader. Shill Carpaccio? I've learned over time that, despite your often off-putting and smug demeanor, you actually have a lot to offer in terms of knowledge and opinions. Nothing discredits it and diminishes it faster, though, than the name-calling nonsense. Just an observation.

So did most board members. ...Sorry. That's two premature ejacu1ation comments in one thread. I'll see myself out.

Wow, that happened much earlier than I expected. (name of my sex tape)

Trying to parse through what might have been behind the release. Dodsen does have a six-game suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy on his resume, but that was from five years ago. As others have said, it's strange to outright cut a starter mid-season unless there's something non play related we don't know about. Demoting/benching him is one thing, but outright cutting him and incurring a $1million cap hit is quite another. Strange.

Kind of a weird and ugly game, but the Bills still won by double digits on the road while being without Cooper and Coleman. Two things stood out to me today: - The defense came to play. Not sure the Bills would've won this game without the turnovers they created. -That was a big boy drive at the end there to seal it. The catch and run by Shakir, the catch and run by Ty Johnson, the repeated third down conversions, punching it in for six rather than settling for a field goal. Huge drive. I (and many others) said going into this game that it would be ugly, and the Bills just needed to do whatever it took to escape with a W. They did. Now it's on to KC and then a really tough post-bye stretch. Here's hoping they get Kincaid, Cooper, and Coleman back before too long. Congrats to the Buffalo Bills for being 8-2 for the first time since 1993! GO BILLS!

My hope is that he takes over the "guy that constantly goes in motion but never gets targets" role so that Curtis Samuel can actually, ya know...play wide receiver.

It also -- as you may have noticed -- has its share of expats with Peter Pan Syndrome. People who really have no desire to anything other than party, drink, and swim. Which...yeah, I totally get the appeal. But we just got to a place where we...wanted more, I guess. With that said, St John is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Its beaches, to this day, still haven't been matched or beaten by any other place I've been. Absolutely beautiful gem of a place, and again, so glad I lived there. I would easily recommend spending a season or two living there to just about anyone that's curious or loves the place, but it takes a special kind of salty barnacle to make it a permanent home.

How much time do you have? Hah. The short answer is: culture and variety. We loved living on St John, but it's a very small island with limited opportunities for novelty and variety. Going to the beach to snorkel, then going to the bar for happy hour is an AMAZING way to spend a day or a week, but when it's ALL THERE IS, it does get old. I liken it to ice cream: an ice cream sundae is undeniably delicious. But if all you could eat 24 hours a day was an ice cream sundae, its appeal would wear off quickly. After a year and a half there, my wife and I began to long for changing seasons, museum trips, a night at the movies, a trip to a botanical garden, a farmer's market...in short, "beach, bar, beach, bar, beach" is less charming after 18 months than it is after one or two weeks. I also try to explain to people that one of the main reasons they have so much fun on vacation is because they're, well...ON VACATION! When you actually LIVE in a place like St John and you have to deal with daily realities like less-than-friendly natives, sky-high grocery and utility costs, obnoxious and inebriated tourists, a dry water cistern with no rain coming any time soon and the cistern refill truck not scheduled back for another week, and the basic reality of having to work 40 hours a week instead of getting to go to the beach every day...it's very different than being there with "vacation brain" and a pocket full of disposable income. St John is/was amazing. I'm incredibly glad I lived there. It was one of the most amazing chapters of my life, and I'll go back to visit any time I can. I still have friends there who are lifers. I can't even guarantee that I would NEVER live there again But for my wife and I, with where we are in our lives right now? We crave more variety, more options, and more culture, and that's why Europe or Central America sound more appealing at this time.

It seems like bad calls by NFL officials become a bigger story every year. Far too many big games are decided by awful calls and non-calls, and it's diminishing the product and alienating the fans. In my estimation, the biggest problem is that the NFL absolutely refuses to have full time officials. For a sport this big, which makes this much money, and which sees so much money wagered on it by the betting public, to NOT have full time officials, seems inexcusable to me. There is also no real accountability for egregious mistakes, and there needs to be. I think the Tweet below proposes some logical solutions, but I'd love to hear everyone else's opinions on it, because I'm sick to death of this god awful officiating week in and week out.

Thanks so much for this. It's fascinating to hear how provincial (pun somewhat intended) and protective the populations of some areas are. In the case of Quebec, its a little bit more easily understandable, as I've always perceived that they take fierce pride in their heritage and culture. What you say about the Canadian government mostly wanting to make sure you'll contribute to society, and the biggest obstacle being the need to have a job lined up or prove your value in terms of professional experience and skillset, lines up exactly with what my perception of the immigration process is. The part that has always seemed a little bit tricky to me is the "chicken or egg" of it all: That is, it seems like it might be tough to get hired at a job without having moved there or become a citizen yet, while at the same time the only way TO move there and become a citizen is to already have a job in place. I don't have a modern, work-from-home, computer-based job like many who move abroad seem to. I work in hospitality. Currently doing accounting for a major hotel chain. My wife is the COO of a cannabis company. Somehow I don't imagine hospitality accounting or cannabis work to be desirable enough to the Canadian government to make them want to open their arms to us, but maybe I'm assuming too much and overthinking it. In any case, Saguenay (which I wasn't very familiar with) looks beautiful. It's nature, gorges, and water features remind me a lot of the pacific northwest, where I live now. You've chosen a beautiful place to live! Anyway...thanks again for your replies and congrats on your successful relocation. Interesting you should say this. My wife and I just vacationed in Portugal for the first time this year and loved it. We didn't get outside of Lisbon much, but we felt more or less right at home there. I had a hell of a time adjusting to the language (we had just been to Spain, and I wasn't prepared for how different Portuguese is from Spanish). Anyway...thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna research the immigration process there.

Wow. Incredibly informative and helpful. Thank you very kindly for this response and the invitation it ended with. If you don't mind a follow up question: In terms of the practicalities of the immigration process (I assume you moved there from the U.S., although maybe that's not a safe assumption), did you find it to be rigorous/difficult? I hear mixed things from people trying to move from the U.S. to Canada in terms of the difficulty of the process and the realistic requirements for acceptance.

In order to play snaps at WR in the NFL, you have to be able to run block and get off the press. Both of those things require use of the hands/wrist, and neither would be possible for a player with an injured wrist to do successfully. That means that having such a player on the field during run plays would be detrimental to the success of said plays, and having them run routes wouldn't fool the defense for very long if they weren't able to do the hand-fighting necessary of running routes. I get what you're saying, but in practical terms, the requirements of the WR position would not allow a player with an injured wrist to contribute to the offense's success in any meaningful way.

Oui, tres bien. I've heard great things about Montreal and Quebec City in terms of having the feel of being in a European city, but in Canada. Plus I'd still be within reasonable traveling distance of my family in western New York. While employment prospects would be better for us, I've heard the process of repatriating to Canada has become fairly difficult these days. To put it politely, I don't exactly think Canada WANTS Americans at the moment.

Yeah that's been the biggest drawback that's kept us from choosing Italy so far: employment. I think I'd be okay (depending on where we chose to move) because I'm in hospitality, and there are always jobs at hotels. My wife would have a much harder time. Shame, because the lifestyle and pace of living there seem perfect for us. But practically speaking, it seems tough to make a go of it unless you already have a big nest egg. Thanks for the input.

*Disclaimer: No political crap in this thread, please. If you wanna talk about that stuff, take it to the PPP* My wife and I have been considering moving abroad for years now. We previously lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for a couple years, but that's a U.S. territory, so it was pretty easy and didn't involve anything special. As for this potential move, we've talked about various options including Italy, Sweden, Costa Rica, and Montreal. I recognize that different countries have different immigration requirements, some more stringent than others, so I'm wondering if anyone here has ever moved abroad and, if so, what their experience was. Where did you move to and when? Was it difficult? Complicated? Easier than expected? Obviously I can google various countries' policies, but I'm more so looking to just hear firsthand accounts from people that have actually done it. Any insight would be much appreciated.

Nah, he appears to be cooked. There's a reason the Ravens are releasing him. I'd rather give the snaps to Javon Soloman.

The Bills are ranked higher in scoring offense, scoring defense, and have the vastly superior quarterback. Then again, a team with a high quality running back, pretty good defense, and savvy veteran quarterback is exactly the type to give the Bills unexpected trouble, especially on the road and sandwiched between a division rival and the Chiefs. This is a TCB game. Take Care of Business, no matter how ugly. It won't surprise me if the Bills win by three scores, and it won't surprise me if they win by three points. Just win and escape, and go into the Chiefs game 8-2 for the first time since 1992.

I'll never forget in Marv Levy's autobiography where he states that in order to have a well-built and consistently winning football team, you need to be good from the top down. And by "the top", he meant ownership. If you have bad ownership -- meddlesome, cheap, absentee, whatever -- you're unlikely to be very good or for very long. The Dolphins and Jets have bad ownership. So long as the men who own those teams continue to own them, I foresee continued turnover at GM, HC, and QB. The Pats have good ownership in Kraft, but he's getting older, and I have doubts about his ability to fully move past the Belichick glory days (witness his anointing Jerod Mayo as head coach without a particularly legitimate coaching search). The Bills have an owner who is willing to give whatever money is necessary to the GM and HC and then get out of the way. He doesn't seem to be particularly meddlesome or cheap, and he's usually visible in the post-game locker room breakdowns, meaning he's probably not absentee (lack of public press conferences not withstanding). In the immediate term: The Dolphins have a head coach who, in my estimation, isn't long for head coaching duties there. I've seen this song and dance before: Whiz kid offensive play caller sets the league on fire, the league catches up to him, and he has no second act. I think his schtick will begin to wear thin. He'll have a long career as an OC in this league, but he is not a leader of men. Once he's out the door, will the next head coach want to stick with Tua? The Jets have tied themselves completely to the Aaron Rodgers clown show. They deserve everything that's happening to them. If and when they free themselves from him and start over, they're back to square one -- in need of a new head coach, new QB, possibly a new GM. All of it adds up to "not particularly threatening any time soon". The Patriots' head coach doesn't appear to be cut out for the job. Their owner, for reasons I mentioned earlier, may not be trustworthy in terms of turning a page on the head coach if and when it becomes necessary. The young quarterback looks pretty good, and we all know that a franchise QB can turn things around pretty quickly. Of the three teams in our division, the Pats are, in my estimation, the most likely to become a viable threat again in the near future, because at least they have a promising young QB prospect. One could make an argument for the Dolphins, but not so long as McDaniel is their head coach, in my opinion. TL;DR: Franchise QB's health permitting, Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills are going to continue to own this division for the next decade.